AMSAT OSCAR 40 Sends Earth Photo

An Anonymous Coward sent in: "Some of you might remember, that the Phase 3-D Amateur satellite "AMSAT OSCAR 40", launched in November 2000 by an ARIANE 5, was almost dead after an accident with it's 400N propulsion system... However, the satellite survived and is pretty alive. Today it sent spectacular pictures from its color camera to earth from a distance of about 50.000km using the wide angle camera. The satellite provides also excellent communication on 2.4 GHz (S-Band) for radio amateurs worldwide. Pictures and status information can be found here and also here."

More news about it on ARRL's website

[Alan Shield]

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2001/08/10/4/ [arrl.org]

Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

Slow news day this is
This is a thread much near death
I am a bored troll

Possibilities for Abuse?

[Starquake]

I can just imagine some poor, lonely guy in charge of re-positioning the satellite "accidentally" sending it over some nude beaches and snapping off a few full-color shots.

And a helluvalot cheaper than Triana

[Tackhead]

Nuff said. Maddest props to the OSCAR crew.